SOLVED: Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

SOLVED: Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Dilip M]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> 'd try running it with strace, and then search the output for stat()
>> calls involving <something>/.git.
>
> Seems like we are almost there....here is the log..
>
> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> grep gitk /tmp/gitk_1.log
> execve("/usr/bin/gitk", ["/usr/bin/gitk"], [/* 37 vars */]) = 0
> open("/usr/bin/gitk", O_RDONLY)         = 3
> execve("/usr/bin/wish8.4", ["/usr/bin/wish8.4", "/usr/bin/gitk",
> "--"], [/* 37 vars */]) = 0
> stat("/usr/bin/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=237778, ...}) = 0
> open("/usr/bin/gitk", O_RDONLY)         = 6
> lstat("/usr/share/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> access("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No
> such file or directory)  <======
> lstat("/usr/share/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> access("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en.msg", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such
> file or directory)       <======
> stat("/home/dm/.gitk", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=683, ...}) = 0
> open("/home/dm/.gitk", O_RDONLY)        = 6
> writev(5, [{"\22\0\7\0\16\0@\3\'\0\0\0\37\0\0\0\10NG\0\4\0\0\0gitk\20"...,
> 48}], 1) = 48
> writev(5, [{"\22\0\7\0\16\0@\3(\1\0\0\37\1\0\0\10AME\4\0\0\0gitk\22"...,
> 112}], 1) = 112
>
> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -l /usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg
> ls: cannot access /usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg: No such file or directory
>
> But how is it working when  I do 'sudo'..

Just re-installed tcl/tk...it is working fine..:)

Many thanks to Reece Dunn,  Johannes Schindelin, Brian Foster....who
all helped me out...:)

-- DM